Stories You've Written That You Lost Somewhere Along The Way

[scsinclair]

I've written a lot of things over the years that I have misplaced, deleted, or thrown away. Some of it I wish I'd kept, some I'm glad is gone. I'm curious as to what stories you've all written that you no longer have but wish you still did.

In terms of erotica, the ones I miss the most are a fanfic-style story I wrote many, many years ago in which I had a threeway with Heather Thomas & Heather Locklear, another fanfic in which my fiance & I got special roadside assistance from pornstar Serenity, and a screenplay I wrote for a XXX spoof of 50s giant monster movies called THE AMAZING HUMONGOUS WOMAN (about a girl who undergoes a medical trial which turns her into a rampaging, 100-foot-tall nymphomaniac). It isn't that any of these were particularly brilliant bits of prose, but rather that they have certain sentimental value.

What stories have you written that you've lost somewhere along the way?

 

[oggbashan]

I've lost my first extended attempt at erotica.

As originally written I couldn't have posted it on Literotica anyway because it started from the hero's birth and included detailed description of sexual abuse he suffered when a child (an important plot line because it explained later behaviour).

I originally wrote it in the 1980s on an IBM XT with 5.25 floppy drives. Although I still have those floppies I had deleted the earlier long versions. I started revising it drastically and I have some of the revised versions.

But I'm not the writer I was in the 1980s and the original story was so bad that I deleted it. The revised versions would need a complete rethink and possibly a restart from scratch but the story isn't as good as later incomplete works.

Since then I have kept ALL my possible drafts, hundreds of them. Sometimes I trawl through and resurrect and even finish an older story line. More usually that older story gives me material for a different story. But the original is still on my hard drive and backed up multiple times.

So - I've lost one and kept too many I should have lost.

Storage space isn't the issue that it was on the IBM XT. I can keep all my incomplete stories in several revisions AND all my completed stories on one CD. I have .txt files of my completed stories. ALL those .txt files would fit on a single 3.5 floppy if I still used floppies.

 

[beachbum1958]

The first stories I wrote of an erotic bent were stashed on a laptop that was stolen from my car; the ones I missed the most were the original draft versions of Nia, Lost Girl, and another linked story called 'The House In The Old Town'. Service in Afghanistan intervened, and over time I lost the thread to the third story, which troubled me for a long time, as it was still only an outline, but I was sure it was going to be a killer, with lots of back-story relating it to the the other two. I eventually got there with 'Big Girls Don't Cry' and the coda to that story, but I still miss and wonder how the original story would have gone if only I could remember more than a sketchy remnant of it.

 

[TxRad]

I have two lost stories, both were to be novels.

Powers was a sci/fi novel that was on a laptop that was stolen. The only part I had a backip on was the intro. It is posted here on Lit. Powers
I've recreated it in part but it is not the same story. It's taken turns the first try didn't.

The other was the second novel to my Sweet and Spicy Horny Toads novel. It was on a 3.5 floppy that got corrupted. I've tried twice to recreate it. It never sounds nearly as good as the first time through.

 

[Jay321]

Any attempt that I had made at erotica that isn't on literotica is gone permanently. Probably a good thing. Several stories that I posted on a now defunct website red edit or edit red, I don't remember the name now. A novella leangth story that I must be honest about, it sucked.
A humorous story I wrote that gained me free entry to a fun little party. I had lost a story that I absolutely love that I wrote for a while, I lucked out and found it. Now it's on two kindles, my computer and the cloud.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I lost two, they were on an old disk drive, an 8 bit hard drive. Yeah, that long ago. Never could find a controller to read it. The computer it was in was long gone, by the time I thought about them.

One was a Sci-Fi police procedural novel - There Is No Justice. It was almost complete...I just had to hash out the ending. I have never tried to recreate it.

The other I have forgotten what it was going to be and the title I gave it back then. I know I started it and got 3/4 of the way finished.

Neither were erotica.

 

[Kantarii]

These days, in order for me to lose a story , it would mean I lost my mind.... Or, to clarify, my imagination. There is nothing written that is so painful to read, keep, cherish, and reflect on than something written by an author with no imagination at all.